I try several things to setup mplayer to work with my multi-tuner dvb card. I cannot use something like "mplayer dvb://2@R1" because mplayer will look for the first tuner of the second card, and I want the second tuner of the first and only card.

don't play device files as if they were plain files, or mplayer will try
to seek on them.
Better use

Code:

$ cat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr1|mplayer -

This command work well, but mplayer quit when I change the channel with tzap or szap. So, I prefer the first one ("mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr*") because I can change the channels without to have to restart mplayer.

I responded on the mplayer list about this issue, but didn't get any answer. So, what is the problem if any with something like "mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr1"? Can such a command damage my hardware?

I am very confused because on the linux-tv wiki, they use "mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0".

EDIT: According to a discussion I get on irc #linuxtv@freenode, "mplayer /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr1" is safe, it will not damage the hardware, and the messages about seek stream can be ignored._________________[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading that text: please consider ]]]
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